So lately I’ve been doing a little inventory on my comic book collection which amounts to 22 longboxes of single issues and 6 longboxes of tpb’s, graphic novels so that totals to lots of comics, some are my prized collections while others are just 50 cent bin fodder.
So I’m thinking that I’m just hoarding too many comics that I don’t even read anyways that I’ve been thinking of just selling the ones I don’t care for. Already I’ve sold away my issues of Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men along with a mix of TPB’s like X-Men, USM and the manga Akira.
Basically I’m just pairing down my collection to what I love the most and not fall into the trap of what newest HOT comic is going to be big, or what comic will change the status quo for that particular superhero since we all know everything gets reset every couple of years, that is why the comic industry is in such bad shape IMO.
For example Batman and Superman are my favorite superheroes so I’d buy any title from them regardless of mediocrity because I’ve grown up on them.
And then there are comics of which I don’t care for but I follow the artist who is on at the moment of which I have many comics of those that the character sucks but my favorite artist is on it. (ex: I love John Byrne’s artwork that I’ve even bought titles that suck just for his art alone).
Another example is Spider-Man, I grew up on his cartoons but he never grew on me like Batman/Superman have done and I started buying SM comics because Todd McFarlane was drawing it, once Todd left the comics were going into a dwindling spiral that I’m glad I avoided the whole Clone Sage fiasco and same reason I gave away my Ultimate Spider-Man comics, the stories aren’t memorable, they’ll soon be forgotten.
I know this is a long rant but I’m wondering if other collectors are doing the same with their comic collections, are you guys going selling away your stuff,? Going digital? Do you buy a comic for the character? Do you follow the artist? The writer?
So I’m thinking that I’m just hoarding too many comics that I don’t even read anyways that I’ve been thinking of just selling the ones I don’t care for. Already I’ve sold away my issues of Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men along with a mix of TPB’s like X-Men, USM and the manga Akira.
Basically I’m just pairing down my collection to what I love the most and not fall into the trap of what newest HOT comic is going to be big, or what comic will change the status quo for that particular superhero since we all know everything gets reset every couple of years, that is why the comic industry is in such bad shape IMO.
For example Batman and Superman are my favorite superheroes so I’d buy any title from them regardless of mediocrity because I’ve grown up on them.
And then there are comics of which I don’t care for but I follow the artist who is on at the moment of which I have many comics of those that the character sucks but my favorite artist is on it. (ex: I love John Byrne’s artwork that I’ve even bought titles that suck just for his art alone).
Another example is Spider-Man, I grew up on his cartoons but he never grew on me like Batman/Superman have done and I started buying SM comics because Todd McFarlane was drawing it, once Todd left the comics were going into a dwindling spiral that I’m glad I avoided the whole Clone Sage fiasco and same reason I gave away my Ultimate Spider-Man comics, the stories aren’t memorable, they’ll soon be forgotten.
I know this is a long rant but I’m wondering if other collectors are doing the same with their comic collections, are you guys going selling away your stuff,? Going digital? Do you buy a comic for the character? Do you follow the artist? The writer?
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